Gut Bacteria Linked to Rare Autoimmune Disease
Thursday, August 4, 2016 - 16:01
in Health & Medicine
A new study led by UC San Francisco scientists shows that a bacterium commonly found in the human gut is overrepresented in patients with a rare, often disabling autoimmune disease known as neuromyelitis optica, or NMO. The researchers suggest that the greater population of this bacterium, Clostridium perfringens, that they observed in NMO patients may […]